If you are interested in attending the Dixie Stampeded show in Myrtle Beach, the show starts at 5:30pm and features live animals, dramatic sound and lights, pyrotechnics and a country feast. The dinner part of the show is a four course meal, complete with your drink served in a Mason jar.

Tickets for Dixie Stampede Myrtle Beach are $41.99 for standard tickets and $46.99 for preferred seating tickets. If you have a large family, that can be an expensive excursion. In fact, you might need some cheap Dixie Stampede tickets.

Here’s how you can get some Dixie Stampede discount tickets for Myrtle Beach.

Check out the Special Offers page of the Dixie Stampede website because they usually offer a discount of you book a combo ticket. Here are the current Dixie Stampede discount ticket combos for Myrtle Beach:

• Ripley’s Aquarium Myrtle Beach & Dixie Stampede Combo Ticket

Other options for cheap Dixie Stampede tickets:

Purchase an Entertainment Book for Myrtle Beach. It features discount offers for various attractions in Myrtle Beach.

Drop by your local AAA office to see if they have any discount Dixie Stampede tickets.

Ask around to see if you can find someone that works at Dixie Stampede. Employees can get discount tickets.

For info on how to get cheap Dixie Stampede tickets in Pigeon Forge, visit Pigeon Forge Hotels Guide.

Also see, How To Get Cheap Dixie Stampede Discount Tickets-Branson.

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Seljalandsfoss Waterfall, Iceland by Arnar Valdimarsson

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The show features over 30 live horses, live music, lights and sounds, pyrotechnics and food. The food is a four course meal. Nothing fancy - rotisserie chicken, barbecued pork loin, veggie soup, potato, corn and more.

Tickets for the Dixie Stampede may seem a bit high to you. Regular seating is $41.99 and preferred seating is $46.99.

If you don’t want to pay those prices for Dixie Stampede tickets, you might want to look for some Branson MO discount tickets for the show.

The Dixie Stampede website has some Dixie Stampede discount ticket offers, if you want to buy a combo ticket.

Special combo ticket deals for cheap Dixie Stampede tickets in Branson:

• Titanic Branson & Dixie Stampede Combo Ticket
• Ride The Ducks & Dixie Stampede Combo Offer

If you don’t want a combo ticket, you do have a few other options for Dixie Stampede Branson tickets at a discount.

Purchase an Entertainment Book for Branson. It features discount offers for various attractions in Branson.

Drop by your local AAA office to see if they have any discount Dixie Stampede tickets.

Ask around to see if you can find someone that works at Dixie Stampede. Employees can get discount tickets.

For info on how to get cheap Dixie Stampede tickets in Pigeon Forge, visit Pigeon Forge Hotels Guide.

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Review (this review is my opinion based on my 2-night stay at the hotel)

I booked a room with two queen beds and was given a room on the 12th floor of the North Tower. The room has the two beds in it, a desk and chair, two sitting chairs by the window and a large flat screen TV. The bathroom was large, with a soaker tub.

In-room amenities included a fully stocked mini-bar, complete with snacks, two robes, two pairs of slippers, a lint brush, shoe shine kit, mending kit, hair dryer, David Graves toiletries - shampoo, conditioner, lotion, body wash & flax seed soap, a loofah and free high speed internet access.

Overall, the room was very clean and pleasant. And all of the hotel employees I encountered were nice. The view from the room was of an adjacent building and part of Avenue Road at Bloor. However, it was lacking a coffee maker. There was also an ice bucket but no ice machines are available in the hotel. Instead, you must call room service to get ice or coffee. Each of those I find unacceptable.

Parking options are to self-park at the Four Seasons across the street on Cumberland St. or have valet park you there. Hotel website states that it is $38 CAN either way but a TripAdvisor review puts it at $44 per day. Keep driving down Cumberland and you will first pass a garage with a $16 CAN price and then a slightly cheaper garage. Go for it. It is the one with green signs. I parked there and saved something like $25 - $35 CAN for my stay. That garage takes cash, Visa and Mastercard.

The lobby seemed stuffy and uninviting. It was not the sort of lobby you would want to spend any time in. The on-site restaurant was incredibly expensive and offered only a limited menu. I was also disappointed in the “desk chair” in the room because it was not a desk chair at all. It was more like a sitting chair and for a luxury hotel I was expecting more of an executive desk chair.

Fortunately, there is a Whole Foods Market just up the street from the hotel. And a Tim Horton’s is just a few blocks down Bloor to the west of the hotel.

In general, I did not find a lot of redeeming qualities in the surrounding area. It was difficult to find just a market or bodega that was open past 9pm to get some bottled water. The restaurant choices in the immediate vicinity were not to my liking either. The best options nearby were Tim Horton’s and the Matisse restaurant in the Marriott at 90 Bloor, just a few blocks away.

For a wider variety of more reasonably priced restaurants, I suggest walking east on Bloor and heading down Yonge St, towards downtown. You will immediately find loads of restaurants and markets.

While the hotel was clean and the front desk staff was pleasant, I would choose to stay elsewhere if I found myself in this area of Toronto again. In fact, I would probably check out the Yorkville Marriott.

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As a frequent traveler to NYC, I am always on the lookout for the best hotel deals in NYC. I don’t need luxury, but I don’t want to stay in a dirty hotel. I like to spend around $150 max on a NYC hotel room, but will go up to $175 if I have to. I think this is really as low as you can go in New York City and expect to have a decent stay in a decent hotel.

Here is my tested list of the 6 best hotels in New York City for the budget-minded:

Millennium UN Plaza Hotel

The Millennium UN Plaza Hotel is one of my favorite hotels in NYC. The average room rate is somewhere between $300 and $400 dollars but I have stayed here several times for under $150. A couple of years ago, I even spend a week at this hotel from Christmas through New Years for $159 a night. Getting a cheap room at this hotel is really all about luck. When I have found the low rate, it has always been through the MillenniumHotels.com website. It’s worth giving it a try when you are looking for a hotel. The only disadvantage of this hotel is its closest subway stop is a bit of a trek.

Hilton Garden Inn Chelsea (West 28th St.)

The Hilton Garden Inn Chelsea has been a super clean NYC hotel each time I’ve stayed there. I’ve been successful in getting it for the $150 or less per night in the past. And the big bonus to this hotel is that each room has a mini-fridge and microwave in it. You can pop over to a nearby grocery store and stock up the fridge with water, beer or whatever. It is also convenient to a subway stop. As of this writing, the TripAdvisor page for this hotel has a 15% off offer as well!

Four Points By Sheraton Manhattan Chelsea

Also in a convenient location, the Four Points By Sheraton Manhattan Chelsea is another great choice for travelers on a budget in NYC. I stayed here for $149 a night the last week of December one year. The rooms are clean but VERY tiny - even for New York City standards.

Ink48 - a Kimpton Hotel

If you’re looking for a cheap boutique hotel near the near Javits Center in Hell’s Kitchen, give Ink48 a try. It’s on 11th & 48th, which isn’t convenient to any subway stops - about 5 blocks to the nearest one. This hotel does have a really cool rooftop bar though. And most important - it’s super clean and you can get it for $175 or under if you find a deal. It is also a pet-friendly hotel, if that is important to you.

Hampton Inn Manhattan Chelsea

The Hampton Inn Manhattan Chelsea is your typical Hampton Inn experience - clean, free breakfast and free wi-fi. It has a great location near some subway stops. And you can regularly get a room for way under $200 a night.

Wyndham Garden Hotel Chelsea

About a year ago I booked a three-night stay at the Wyndham Garden Hotel Chelsea and canceled the last two nights to move over to the Hilton Garden Inn Chelsea. This hotel makes the list because it falls in the budget price range and it was clean enough. In my opinion, the service was terrible and I would never return to this hotel again. However, if you have no other options you can probably get this hotel in your price range. And I remember the hotel restaurant being decent enough.

The key to getting a great deal on a hotel in NYC is to do your research. Check the direct hotel websites and look on travel deal sites like TravelZoo. And if all else fails, you can use Priceline.com for a deal - you just never know what hotel you’ll end up with on Priceline!

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20at20 is 20 off-Broadway shows with $20 tickets just 20 minutes before the show. It runs for 2 weeks from September 7, 2010 until September 19, 2010.

The way that it works is that you go to the box office of one of the participating shows and ask for a “20at20″ ticket - that is the only way to get the $20 tickets. And you can only get them 20 minutes before curtain. Assuming that the show isn’t sold out.

You can see a full list of shows on the website 20at20.com. Participating shows include:

• The 39 Steps
• The Fantasticks
• John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean
• My Big Gay Italian Wedding

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Toirano, Liguria, Italy by Eric Borda

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Colletta, Liguria, Italy by reinvented

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